Each Friday, NCLR will post content from past issues. All past issues are currently available for purchase. Or check your library’s digital collections to read the full piece.
Through this tale, we learn of the building passion between two friends who have just met. “And it was there, in the darkness before the rising of any moon, that Lamp looked deep into the eyes of the young man he had so carefully nurtured, whose love he had caused to grow the way a gardener grows fruit, and told him that he had a secret to reveal.”
As we eagerly await our new batch of interns and assistants, we share a piece from Abby, one of our students who wrapped her internship last semester. The 1996 “Cats and Their Writers” feature remains a perennial favorite.
Inspiration from the 2020 winner of the Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest, before this year’s submission window opens!
As we pass into the next calendar year, many of us have special traditions and rituals to mark this time’s passage. Claxton highlighted Clapsaddle’s Cherokee rituals in her essay from our 2023 print issue:
Friday from the Archives: “State Highway Historic Markers: Public Commemoration and Literary History” by Michael Hill from NCLR 2 (1993)
Looking for your next literary research subject? May we suggest riding around your town til you find a local literary highway historical marker? There are over a hundred around the state, in many unexpected places.
Friday from the Archives: “i forgive the spiders” a poem by doris davenport from NCLR 20 (2011) NCLR joins family and friends in mourning the passing of Dr. doris davenport earlier this month
Friday from the Archives: “Who is my Neighbor?: Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999,” essay by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and photographs by Rob Amberg from NCLR 11 (2002)
25 years ago Hurricane Floyd passed over Eastern NC and the after-flooding ravaged the state.
Friday from the Archives: “You Sang me a song, and I heard”: The Song Behind a Wellman Legend” by Mark Ogilvie, from NCLR 11 (2002)
Written By: Fall Intern Robert Miranda
Friday from the Archives: “Coffee to Go” memoir by Linda Flowers from NCLR 5 (1996)
“But now, young and old alike work at jobs having no particular value to themselves beyond their pay. My parents and I could see in every aspect of our lives the meaning of our work.”
Friday from the Archives: “Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine” an essay by Erica Abrams Locklear from NCLR 22 (2013)